"Programming for beginners: Learning basics with computer Shogi" to be re-released soon

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Published: May 17, 2024

The Online Education, Tokyo Tech Academy for Super-Smart Society is pleased to announce the re-release of a free on-demand course for beginners to learn the basics of programming using "Shogi" as the topic. "Programming for beginners: Learning basics with computer Shogi" will be delivered by edX, a MOOC platform founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, and is available to everyone free of charge! In this course, you will learn the basics of programming and various ideas from Professor Atsushi Takahashi and MATLAB TAs from the School of Engineering. Since this course is for beginners, no programming experience or knowledge of Shogi is required. In addition, MATLAB, which is used in the course, is free of charge as MathWorks will provide you with a limited-time license.

Course About

Delivery period

Friday, May 31, 2024 - Monday, March 31, 2025

Duration

5 weeks

Time Commitment

2 - 3 hours per week

Fee

Free

Learning Pace

Self-paced

Subject

Computer Science

Language

Japanese

Difficulty

Introductory

What You Will Learn

  • Basics of programming
    - Variables and arrays
    - Operations and function calls
    - Control statement
  • Various techniques of coding
  • Game tree search
    - Minimax method
    - Board state evaluation of Shogi games
  • Basic programming with MATLAB

Course Syllabus

  • Week 1 : Board representation
  • Week 2 : Piece movement
  • Week 3 : Human vs. human game
  • Week 4 : Computer vs. computer game [Overview]
  • Week 5 : Computer vs. computer game [Implementation]

For Enrollment and Details

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Contact

Online Education, Tokyo Tech Academy for Super Smart Society

Email sss-online@wise-sss.titech.ac.jp

Tel +81-3-5734-3766

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